Improvement in toys



'LL Yuna. Toys. N.0 152,5,83; PatentedJune30f11874.

UTD STATES PATENT OFFICE GEORG YUNG, OF MAYSVILLE, KENTUCKY.

IMPROVEMENT iN Tovs.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 152,588, dated June 30, 1874; application tiled May es, 1874.

To all 'whom it may concern Be it known that I, GEORG YUNG, of Maysville, in the county ot' Mason and State ot' Kentucky, have invented a new and useiul Improvement in Toys; and I hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description ot' the same, reference heilig had to the accompanying drawing, making a part ot' this specitcation, in which- Figure l is a perspective View. Fig. 2 is a view ot' the base-board. Fig. 3 is a sectional view ofthe base-board.

This invention relates to an improvement in a toy-gymnast patented to Jacob Schwenn'essen, June 1l, 1872, Letters Patent No. 127,927; and it consists of a base-bar mortised to receive the lower ends ofthe vertical wooden bars, and provided with a spring' which bears against the lower end ot' one of said "ertieal bars, said mortises being constructed to hold one ot' the vertical bars stationary and to permit the other to be moved inwardly by overcoming the resistance ot' the spring which bears against it; the object ot' the improvement being to provide a means for preventing either the strings which support the gymnast, or the bars with which the strings are connected, from being broken by use.

1n the accompanying drawing,A A represent two light wooden bars connected by a bar, B, the former being secured in recesses in the end ot' the latter by having screws passed through them into ends of the bar B. G represents the tigure ot' a man, loosely jointed at the hips and shoulders and having the hands connected together by a rod, I). Passing through the hands are theV strings E, their ends being secured to the upper ends ot' the bars A A. The strings E are so arranged All the abovedescribed parts are old, and shown in the Letters Patent above referred to.

G is a base-bar having the mortises H and I tor receiving the lower ends ot' the bars A A. The inortise H is sutliciently large to permit theend ot' the bar A which enters it to have lateral play therein. The mortise I holds the bar A, which enters it stationary. A curved spring, J, secured to the base-bar G, traverses the mortise II, bears against the inside ofthe bar A at that side, and holds it against the outside of said mortise H. By pressing with the hand near the lower ends ot" the bars A A the spring J will yield and permit the bar A on that'side to be forced inwardly at the bottom, thereby spreading the hars A A at their upper ends7 and thus straighten the strings E, which operation causes the figure G to change its position. The various changes ot' position produced in this Way result in the performance ot many ludicrous antics by the iig-ure. When the pressure ot' the hand is removed the spring J forces its bar A back to place. The mortise H is of such size that the bottom of its bar A cannot be forced inwardly sufficiently' far to break either the bars A A or the strings E.

Having thus described my improvement, what I claim as new and useful, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

The base'bar G, provided with the mortises H I and spring J, in combination with the bars A A and B, strings E, and iigure U, substantially as and for the purposes hereinbefore set forth.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing improvement as above described I have hereunto set my hand and seal this 7 t-h day of May, 1874. v

\Vitiiesses: GEORG YUNG. [L.

F. Il. CLARKE, v J. F. BARBOUR. 

